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Novel · Religious literature

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

The Screwtape Letters · 1942

★ 5.4

I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind: it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely, in your thoughts, advanced to the stage of science, whatever the matter may be.

William Thomson, Lord Kelvin

Electrical Units of Measurement · 1883

★ 5.2

Novel · Religious literature

The safest road to Hell is the gradual one—the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

The Screwtape Letters · 1942

★ 3.7

Novel · Religious literature

We have trained them to think of the Future as a promised land which favoured heroes attain—not as something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

The Screwtape Letters · 1942

★ 3.6

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